Douglas Lailey

Chairman

Mr. Lailey is a retired business executive and private investor. From 1996 to 2000, Mr Lailey was Senior Vice-President-Americas for Bredero-Shaw, a world wide joint venture between Shawcor Ltd. of Toronto and Halliburton of Dallas, Texas.

Prior to this, Mr. Lailey held the position of Senior Vice President, Pipeline and Tubular products with Shaw Industries Ltd., from 1994 to 1996, and Vice President Pipe Production Group from 1986 to 1994. Mr. Lailey has previously served on the board of Saxon Petroleum Inc. and Blue Sky Resources.

Keith Powell

Director

Keith Powell is currently the principal in his own company, Keith Powell Consulting Inc., where his time is divided among consulting, working on company boards, and public speaking engagements. His clients include BCE, Teleglobe, Excel Communications, Manulife Financial, Group Telecom and Digital Fairways, to name a few.

Keith was the Senior Vice-President of Information Services, and Chief Information Officer at Nortel Networks - Canada's premier high tech company, a position he held for four years until February 2000. Prior to Nortel, he held similar management positions with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft of Canada.

Doron Cohen, Ph.D., ICD.D.

Director

Leveraging his broad based experience in both the corporate and the technology advising sectors, Doron Cohen is currently offering technology business management services through his private advising practice. In addition, he teaches technology management seminars and, as a certified corporate director, works on corporate boards.

Most recently (until April 2006) Doron was a Research Vice President with Gartner where, as a member of the Financial Services Industry Advising team, he covered the strategic business management issues of technology and advised technology providers on product development and go-to-market strategies.

Doron Cohen has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the executive management of large, multinational IT organizations. Before joining Gartner in 2004, he served as Senior Vice President and Executive CIO for Canada Life Financial Corp., one of Canada’s leading multinational financial services enterprises. At Canada Life he initiated and led a comprehensive IT transformation program, brought to completion major system rationalization projects, and oversaw the replacement of critical legacy systems. Prior to joining Canada Life, he was the CIO at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. and Kidd Creek Mines. Earlier in his career, he was Director of Computing Services and a professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and the Technion.

Mark Ripplinger

Director

With a wealth of experience and expertise in business leadership, IT governance, and change execution, Mark established and operates his own management consulting business. Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Mark works in both the public and private sectors with organizations of varying size and industry focus.

Most recently, Mark was Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer with ATB Financial responsible for leading a broad portfolio, including all functions and activities related to information technology and back-office banking administration at ATB Financial.

During his 27-year career he has held key positions in several leading companies, including Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Crown Life; Vice President of Systems with Co-Operators Financial Services; Partner with Sierra Systems; Business Development Executive at EDS; Solutions Development Manager with Cisco Systems; and Director, Sales & Marketing at CDSL/CGI.

Art Smith

President

Over his 20 year career spanning the oil & gas, utility, manufacturing, telecommunication, and computer and consulting industries, Mr. Smith has held many senior posts, from Senior Engineer, to CIO/Vice President at TransCanada Pipelines.

Mr. Smith has considerable experience transforming IT Organization to meet the complex business needs of a geographically distributed business. From 2000 to 2003, Art led the transformation of an IT organization from a high cost low quality, and risky service provider, into a low cost, responsive, high quality and reliable service provider. This transformation was accomplished by focusing on business requirements and results, standardizing technologies and solutions, and eliminating unnecessary redundancy and complexity.